Effects Of Gambling In Sports

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all he did not do enough. Jackson’s lifetime ban proves just how serious a problem gambling is viewed as being.
Pete Rose is the other lone member of the lifetime ban from baseball club. However, in Rose’s case it can be proved that while Rose was a manager he did bet on the outcome of other teams’ games, and possibly even his own teams. In a Major League Baseball press conference, the following was said, “Let no one think it did not hurt baseball.” (Giamatti, 1) Often those inside of the sport view gambling as worse than those outside the sport, as those on the inside see it hurting the integrity of the game. There has been recent talk of lifting Rose’s ban, if he would admit to gambling (which he has not yet done), apologize for his actions, and admit what he did was in fact harmful to baseball. Rose is unlikely to admit this however, as like most gamblers he refuses to admit that what he did was wrong at all.
In today’s world gambling is progressively being done more on the inter...